Founder @SevenStars_VC. Lifelong Fan @Dodgers.
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Joined December 2010
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Honored to represent @SevenStars_VC on the 2026 @Forbes Midas Brink List. Grateful to the founders who trust us to be part of their journey, and to my Seven Stars partners for making this possible! forbes.com/sites/truebridge/…
Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active.
- Frontier reasoning efficiency
- Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks
- Trained end-to-end from scratch
Full weights release this month.
Learn more about Beam: reflection.ai/beam
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This is the largest research breakthrough we've ever had.
Beyond proud of every single person at @tavus who worked to bring Griffin to life- and everyone who has contributed to the journey since 2020.
The age of human computing is here.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
$100M ARR. 60+ paying customers. And it’s just the beginning. Let's go @deepakpathak @gupta_abhinav_ @SkildAI!
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We just hit 100M ARR, 10 months after our first deployment.
One of the fastest growing physical companies in human history.
Deeply grateful to our team and partners for making this achievement possible. We're just getting started.
Incredible work from @deepakpathak, @gupta_abhinav_, and the entire @SkildAI team. S1 can perform long-horizon (10 min) tasks after watching just a single video, a level of capability we haven’t seen before. World-changing breakthrough from the team!
The best marketing teams see what’s changing and act before everyone else. @HelloPomo turns market signals into action, from identifying the next move to preparing the work needed to execute it.
@SevenStars_VC is proud to back @praneetdutta and @JoeC7007 alongside @KindredVentures, Timeless, @svangel, and other incredible investors!
I quit @GoogleDeepMind to build a marketing team that never stops working.
Today, we're launching @HelloPomo.
Your marketing, from insight to execution, unified.
Pomo watches everything happening across your market, tells you exactly what to do next (the budget shift to make, the trend to jump on, the buyer to answer), then prepares the assets for your approval.
@JoeC7007 and I have raised a $4.5M Seed led by @KindredVentures (@stevejang ), with backing from @SevenStars_VC (@stevenl ), @svangel (@AndreaShuyuWang ), @databricks, Timeless (@gauravahuja, @eshan_shetty), @645Ventures, @scottbelsky, @mghissassi & @mascarom.
Reply with your website. We'll run Pomo for 10 companies and show you the growth opportunities it finds and the work it creates.
Big congratulations to @clattner_llvm, @iamtimdavis, and the @Modular team on today’s announcement. Excited to see what Modular’s software platform and Qualcomm’s silicon expertise can unlock together for AI developers and customers.
Calling them the best of the best is still an understatement. Congrats @km and @stevejang!
News! We are proud to share our latest $355M set of funds, combining early stage and early growth.
Seven Stars is proud to support @OriginLabAI in their $8M seed round led by @lightspeedvp. Origin is bridging gaming and AI by helping video game companies license high-quality data to world-model builders.
Congratulations to @colincarrier, Margot, Antoine, and the Origin Lab team on this milestone. They’re hiring! originlab.ai/careers
Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/or…
We @SevenStars_VC are thrilled to triple down and deepen our partnership with @Nico_Laqua, @emily_yuan_, and the @UseCorgi team. Read more about their $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation in their @Forbes exclusive: forbes.com/sites/richardniev…
Today, @UseCorgi is announcing a $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation led by TCV.
This new round of funding will help us scale what we've built and expand into new verticals including trucking, payroll, and small business.
This follows our $108M Series A that we announced 16 weeks ago, bringing total funding to over $268M.
Congrats on a legendary run, BK! I learned so much from partnering with you on @ElevenLabs, @trymirage, and @sports_district, and I know you’ll continue to be an incredible partner to founders at your new fund.
PERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this.
Excited to see @nakul launch Knuckle Up. Real operating lessons from legendary founders who have actually built iconic companies, not recycled startup talking points. Strong first episode with Frank Slootman!
Excited to double down in @Doctronic’s Series B round! Congrats to @MattPavelle, Dr. Adam Oskowitz, and team for building one of the most exciting companies in healthcare. They’re making care faster and more affordable, with 15x ARR growth in 6 months and now over 24M AI consultations. wsj.com/articles/startups-ar…
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Today, @elevenlabs is announcing a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation, led by Sequoia, with a16z quadrupling down and ICONIQ tripling down.
It reflects the trust of customers and partners building at the frontier alongside us - and gives us momentum to ship even faster.
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I’ve spent the last 6 years building for pharmacies in India, to the heart of the AI boom in SF.
Today, we’re coming out of stealth with @oximyhq and joining the @ycombinator W26 batch.
We are building the System of Record for Enterprise AI Usage. 🧵
Announcing Series C
We’ve raised $1.4B, valuing the company at over $14B
With this capital, we will accelerate our mission to build omni-bodied intelligence 🚀
skild.ai/blogs/series-c
Big day for @TheCorgiCompany: regulatory approval to launch the first AI-native, full-stack insurance carrier for startups, plus $108M raised from top investors. @nico_laqua, @emily_yuan_, and Team Corgi have shown incredible tenacity and ambition since Day 1, and we’re proud to be on the journey with them at @SevenStars_VC.
@TheCorgiCompany is coming out of stealth with $108M raised to build the future of financial infrastructure.
A lot of the GDP flows through highly regulated financial entities that haven't been meaningfully changed in decades.
To fix this, we're starting in insurance.
What a way to start 2026. Congratulations to @MattPavelle, Dr. Oskowitz, and the @Doctronic team on the partnership!
Not SciFi anymore. @Doctronic is now the first AI in America (the world?) legally authorized to practice medicine.
We're live in Utah, renewing prescriptions with no doctor required.
@politico : politico.com/news/2026/01/06…
